I looked yesterday for the 2.4.16 patches, couldn't find them, and I
couldn't find the preempt patches either, can you point me to them?
Thanks,
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Gabe E. Nydick
Systems Lead
ClubPhoto, Inc.
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F: 408.557.6799
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On 12/6/01 5:30 PM, "Walt H" <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Drew,
>
> I just recently built an Athlon system using the new SOYO Dragon+ MB. So
> far so good. Works excellent with very good performance. I'm running
> 2.4.16-xfs with the preempt patches and suffer no ill as a result. I
> originally started with Mandrake 8.1 then upgraded to 2.4.14 and later
> to 2.4.16 - It's been working surprisingly well considering the newness
> of the hardware.
>
> System Specs:
> SOYO Dragon+ MB
> Athlon XP1800+
> 2x256MB Samsung PC2100 DDR
> 2x40GB IBM GXP60 Deskstar configured with software raid0
> GeForce 3 Ti200
> Onboard Via ethernet, CM8738 sound both are enabled
> Additional EEPRO100
> All hardware is supported under linux.
>
> Using it as my devel workstation/game machine at home and performance is
> excellent. So far, stability is fine with no lockups, freezes, oopses
> etc... Been running for approx. 3 weeks. Hope that helps,
>
> -Walt
>
>
> Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell wrote:
>
>> Fellow XFS users:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ---
>> My company has been working with XFS-Linux on Intel systems for some
>> time
>> and has had some difficulties getting a stable Linux w/XFS release to
>> work
>> on some of our older K6-2 systems. Instead of butting our heads against
>> a
>> case of potentially suspect hardware, we're looking to upgrade to a
>> group
>> of Athlon-based systems. In this, I have a few questions:
>>
>> 1. What can those of you running Linux w/XFS recommend for motherboards
>> to
>> go with an Athlon processor?
>> (We might as well get hardware we know works by experience.)
>> 2. Are they any special changes to your kernels used to work correctly
>> with
>> an Athlon-based system?
>>
>> Our initial attempts at doing an Athlon + Linux + XFS solution haven't
>> worked.
>> We've tried the following methods:
>> 2.4.14 source from kernel.org, patched to XFS 1.0.2, compiled using
>> gcc
>> 2.4.14 source from kernel.org, patched to XFS 1.0.2, compiled using
>> kgcc
>> Pre-patched XFS 1.0.2 kernel source from SGI, compiled using kgcc
>>
>> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> --Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell [cheetah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> ClubPhoto (http://www.clubphoto.com) Pictures, Prints, Gifts, and More!
>>
>>
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